I'm having tremendous trouble importing my DXFs.

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I’m having tremendous trouble importing my DXFs. They’re exported from Illustrator, but I’ve loaded them in both QCad and DraftSight and saved as R12 ASCII DXFs.

I finally had the sense to load the web version of LW so I could look at the console (how do you do that from the desktop version, btw?) and I see the following error:

Unsupported dxf entity: INSERT:BLOCK_2

I’ve saved it in about 15 dxf versions (all from DraftSight) up to R14 and they all give the same error. Any ideas?

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Open your dxf file with inkscape, check the drawing and export to dxf.
Then try the dxf saved from inkscape with LW.
I had problems with my files and this was a good solution for me.

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I believe you can also open the dxf in inkscape and export to svg as well. Svg’s import no problem.

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Please open an issue on github attaching file. In the meantime, you could just use AI svg to load (as you mentioned AI). I’ve exported a bunch of dxf from F360 lately and had no problem thought.

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Thanks. I tried DXFs from Inkscape but no joy. SVGs don’t work either - different error though: ““TypeError: Cannot read property ‘2’ of null””. Null in this case is the ViewBox property, which the Inkscape SVG save (in both Inkscape and Plain styles) doesn’t seem to provide.